Item Description: Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 1946. Wrappers. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Although the colophon states ' Second Printing ', this is actually the first trade publication of this Maugham monograph, preceded by a limited edition signed by him. One of 2,500 copies printed for the Library of Congress ( 1,000 of which were for sale ) in 1946 in slate blue wrappers. A near fine copy with some toning/light staining to the blue wraps. Less common than the limitation would suggest. Bookseller Inventory # 003624

Item Description: Heron Books Special Edition with 24 K Gold trimming on cover and spine. Edition (1960), 1960. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. LOST UNTIL NOW ON THE BACK SHELVES OF DADS LIBRARY. This Novel is for a Collector of Vintage out of print William Somerset Maugham First Editions. Never been opened past the title page. First Editions REPRINTING For Heron Books in 1967 by William Heinemann Ltd. Spine is Tight & Crisp. Boards are Flat & True; the Corners are Square w/o Bumps. No Wear Marks on Edges. Pages are Clear, Clean, Unmarked and Bright White. No Marks. No Underlining. No Wrinkles or Creases. Not a REMAINDER. Not EX-LIB. Not BCE Contact seller to arrange shipping method and payment Due to size and weight A little extra postage is required, Amount depends on destination Priority and International orders will require additional postage. More Information | Ask Bookseller. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-1471583209457

Item Description: The Limited Editions Club, New Haven, 1938. Hardcover. Book Condition: near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Sloan (illustrator). limited Edition. Copyright date 1938, printed for the members of the limited edition club at the printing-office of Yale University press New Haven. 1938 this being number 1184 of 1500 copies Signed by the Illustrator John Sloan. Two Volumes in a Slipcase. Green flaked cloth over boards with gold lettering on a green black ground on the spine. Both volumes have speckled all page edges. Slipcase Brown in very good condition, with label stating author title and illustrator and also publisher on the back spine. Text and illustrations are bright and clean, binding is our secure, a solid collectible set of books. Size: 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Signed by Illustrator. Collectible & Limited. Bookseller Inventory # 0004143

Item Description: William Heinemann, London, 1915. Hardback. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st impression in publisher's original blue/green cloth with gilt titles and Moorish motif to front board and gilt titles to spine. Misprint on line 4 of page 257 'help' for 'helped' is present, pp [viii] 648. The book has been professionally rebacked but without disturbing the original joints externally and retaining the original endpapers which have gutters reinforced so that now the binding is tight, sound and square and fully serviceable. There is wear to the covers with minor loss of original cloth at spine ends (now replaced) and the spine titles are faint but remain legible. Internally no inscriptions, some paper loss less than the size of an old sixpence to front pastedown, endpapers tanned and some limited closed tear damage to 2/3 pages one of which has some moderate soiling. Generally a very good copy of a very scarce book in its original covers. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bookseller Inventory # 000455

Item Description: London: William Heinemann., 1915. First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. A very good copy, the binding square, with a little rubbing and darkening at the edges. The contents are entirely complete, there is a neat ownership name and date on the front free endpaper otherwise the pages are clean and bright throughout. Publisher's catalogue to the rear. An attractive example of a notoriously fragile production. (Stott A21b). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Bookseller Inventory # 12211

Item Description: 1915. A Novel. London: William Heinemann, (1915). Original blue-green cloth. First English Edition, published one day after Doran's edition in New York. This was Maugham's famed autobiographical novel about~Philip Carey, who has a club foot and who attends King's School, Tercanbury [Maugham had a stammer and attended King's School, Canterbury]; who rejects the idea of the ministry and who studies in Heidelberg and later becomes a doctor [like Maugham]; who becomes obsessed with a vulgar waitress, Mildred Rogers, who goes to a bad end [see Liza of Lambeth], etc. But the novel succeeds because of its unflinching honesty and its devastating account of loneliness, the most tragic of all human conditions. [CGEL]~This copy is in very good-plus condition (there is little wear, but the "gilt" lettering on the binding is rather dull -- because this is a wartime book with faux gilt). We have never had a copy of this book in dust jacket, and such copies may in fact be quite rare: the original one showed Philip with the "wrong" foot a club-foot, but this was discovered after only a few hundred copies had gone out -- and it is not known how many of the copies were equipped with a revised jacket or with no jacket at all (Toole Stott observes, "I have been unable to obtain a copy of either jacket or to find anyone who recalls a description of them"). In any event, this UK edition is many times scarcer than the US edition. Toole Stott A22a. A Modern Library 100 selection. Bookseller Inventory # 12614

Item Description: New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first issue, lacking the Doran monogram on the copyright page and with "help him" misprint on page 257 line 4. One of 4,336 copies. Publisher's green linen cloth, with the front panel and spine lettering in gilt. Very good, with some wear and rubbing to edges, lean to the spine, bright gilt, clean boards, spine cracked and holding with some glue repair inside the front cover, some offsetting and minor tape residue to the endpapers, otherwise bright and clean pages. An attractive copy. Stott A21a. Of Human Bondage is a semi-autobiographical novel and is considered Maugham's masterpiece. The text is a bildungsroman featuring the protagonist Philip Carey, a clubfooted orphan who is raised by his religious aunt and uncle. From a young age, Carey yearns for adventure and moves to Paris to pursue a career in art. Subsequently, he moves to London to study medicine, where he meets the androgynous Mildred, with whom he begins a love affair that will forever alter the course of his life. Of Human Bondage was adapted into three films in 1934, 1946, and 1964. The films starred Leslie Howard and Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Eleanor Parker, and Laurence Harvey and Kim Novak as Philip and Mildred, respectively. Bookseller Inventory # WSM019

Item Description: Heinemann, 1915. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1915. A superb copy rebound in full green leather with raised bands and gilt titles. Gilt to the page edges. A superior copy. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-16775906588

Item Description: Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1936, 1936. First Illustrated Edition; with a new preface by Maugham; one of 751 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. Fine in a defective dust jacket and in the publisher's slipcase, which has minor wear. Bookseller Inventory # 22079

Item Description: George H. Doran Company, 1915. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 648 pp. First edition, first printing, first issue lacking the publisher's monogram on the copyright page and with "help" on page 257, line 4. Very Good. Lean to spine with wear to spine ends, cloth rubbed at extremities, end pages toned and with a paperclip impression to first several leaves, pages show an occasional spot or smudge and several small marginal tears; rear hinge exposed leaving text block a bit sunken. A nice copy of what is widely considered to be the author's best work. Bookseller Inventory # 160917015

Item Description: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, 1936. Hardcover. Randolph Schwabe (illustrator). First Edition. The First Illustrated Edition of this famous book. Copy #643 of 751 SIGNED by the author and by the illustrator, Randolph Schwabe. Perhaps Maugham's greatest effort, OF HUMAN BONDAGE was made into a film in 1934 starring Bette Davis in her breakout performance and again in 1964 with Kim Novak as the manipulative Mildred Rogers. Mild darkening of the spine. Lacking the dustwrapper, as usual, but with the pictorial slipcase, fully intact. Close to Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Bookseller Inventory # 014561

Item Description: William Heinemann, London, 1915, 1915. MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage. A novel. London: William Heinemann,(1915). First Printing. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Ltd. at the Ballantyne Press, London and Edinburgh (on the colophon). Pp. (10),[1]-648,(4). 8vo, smartly rebound in full forest-green calf by Zaehnsdorf, London, with gilt tooled borders, give gilt tooled raised bands to spine, gilt lettering to front board and spine, marbled green endpapers, top edge gilt. Stott, A Bibliography of the Works of W. Somerset Maugham, A21b, BibliographicalCatalogue of the Loren & Frances William Somerset Maugham Collection 81. With the misprint on p. 257, line 4 ("help" instead of "helped"). A lovely contemporarily rebound copy of Maugham's masterpiece, and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century: a bildungsroman documenting the life ofPhilip Carey, orphaned and slightly disfigured, raised by his religious aunt and uncle, before leaving for the continent to pursue a career searchingfor pleasure and beauty as an artist in Heidelberg and Paris, ultimately returning to London to study medicine and attempting to find love. "Maugham has no rival in the portrayal of human emotion, and he creates an almost unbearable tension for his readers as Philip suffers, despairs and pays the price for passion -- a price that is almost too high." - from the rear coverof the Penguin edition. Some light sunned discolouration to spine, with light rubbing to some of the gilt tooling on the spine, slight shelfwear, a couple of instances of marginal smuding, else a very nice, tight, bright copy. 2,500.00 net. Bookseller Inventory # 104241

Item Description: New York: George H. Doran Company, [1915], 1915. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. First edition, second printing, published in the same year as the first printing, with the misprint ("help" for "helped") on p. 257, line 4 corrected. Loren & Frances Rothschild Collection, V, 83; Stott A21a. Bookseller Inventory # 68483

Item Description: William Heinemann LTD. (1931), London, 1931. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered in black on the front board and the spine. Illustrated dust jacket, signed by "MB", housed in a green cloth, clamshell case. 3/6 price stated on the spine of the jacket. Third impression. Inscribed and signed by the author at the half-title. Very scarce dust jacket, identical to the suppressed first edition due to "MB" having drawn the main character's club foot on the wrong leg. The dust jacket has benefited from some much needed TLC - removal of old tatty tape repair to verso and the closing of some tears which threatened to worsen over time. Bookseller Inventory # 017175

Item Description: George H. Doran Company, New York, 1915. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition, second issue, with the misprint corrected at line 4, page 257. 1 vols. 8vo. The Magnum Opus, Inscribed. Inscribed simply by Maugham on the front free endpaper in ink: "For Paul North / W. Somerset Maugham."Inscribed copies of the true first (American) edition of Maugham's most famous book are extremely scarce, from any period. This inscription, although probably not contemporary with publication, has the look and feel of being early, and is in brown ink - not at all like the blue ink which Maugham typically used in later, post-war inscriptions.A very desirable inscribed copy of Maugham's most famous work, and one of the enduring novels of the twentieth century. Stott A21 Original green linen blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt title on spine, faint rubbing to extremities, rear cover with ink stains. Bookplate of Opha Moore, Ohio historian, and Columbus, Ohio bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Contemporary presentation inscription on title page, "Compliments of the Season - A.J. Messier / Dec 1915." Preserved in a green cloth clamshell box First edition, second issue, with the misprint corrected at line 4, page 257. Bookseller Inventory # 56103

Item Description: George H. Doran, Company, 1915. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing without the "Doran monogram" printed on the copyright page. This ORIGINAL later issue dustjacket has the $2.50 printed price present on the front flap with some chipping to the top and bottom spine. The book is in excellent condition without the ubiquitous fading to the spine found on most copies. The binding is in the original green cloth with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean, with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy in collector's condition with a scarce dustjacket. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-17837056084

Item Description: Heinemann, 1915. First UK edition. Original blue cloth titled in gilt to spine and upper cover. Inscribed by the author on the half title, "To Arthur William Lissauer W Somerset Maugham 21.8.38". A very good copy with hinges cracking, spine a little dulled and minor wear to the corners. Bookplate of Arthur Wilmer Lissauer to the front pastedown. The author's most significant work, and classic of twentieth century literature. "Here is a novel of the utmost importance. One feels as though one were sitting before a splendid Shiraz or Daghestan of priceless texture and intricate weave, admiring, feeling, responding sensually to its colors [sic.] and tones." (Theodore Dreiser in a review of the book in the Athenaeum 21 August 1915). Bookseller Inventory # 25558

Item Description: George H. Doran Company, 1915. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Somerset Maugham on a laid in signature. A beautiful First Issue book with misprint online 4 of page 257 and NO Doran monogram on the copyright page. The binding is tight, with minor wear to the spine and panels. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a sharp copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author. We buy Maugham First Editions. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # ABE-15151541629